Wineries & Restaurants

It has been several months since I was at the presentation of the Buon Ricordo 2022 Restaurants Guide, do you remember? I had studded Instagram with photos and videos of splendid dishes! And already a couple of years ago in this article I recommended three new features ...

What I love most about food, wine and drinks in general is their ability to make you happy. I love sharing the table with people I don't know, making friends, exchanging ideas, looks, emotions. A successful dinner is the prelude to any great ...

Thanks to Monica Ramirez of Anam Communication who invited me to the itinerant tasting of Ca Botta wines, I discovered two special places to eat in central Milan that I would like to recommend to you. Both places in Milan are part of the wine district ...

Yesterday, at the Congress Hall of the Grinzane Cavour Castle near Alba, I received the special prize reserved for a book published in 2020 which has wine as its theme or which, in any case, pays special attention to wine, on the occasion of the XX ...

Friday evening, after months of seclusion for the drafting of the new edition of my book, I decided to spend a special evening with my husband to celebrate the end of this immense work. So I went to my favorite restaurant, the only restaurant ...

I would have liked to tell you about this wonderful experience first, but they were really days of fire between work and university! Here I am finally talking to you about the second stage of my Tuscan weekend and about the company that perhaps made me fall in love the most. Maybe,...

A press tour that touches two of the most beautiful Tuscan cities, Florence and Siena, is the most beautiful thing Maddalena Mazzeschi, who deals with wine communication and has been following wonderful companies for many years, could organize for me. So I thought I'd make it coincide with the ...

For a few days I wanted to write an article on the new DPCM which I admit has displaced me and not because I am a denier or one who belittles the danger of the coronavirus. This decree - with the restaurants closed at 18 pm - surprised me because it puts ...

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that Tuscan wines are a legend, but this time I want to tell you about a company in Volterra, a wonderful area that I had not yet explored. When my best man - Marina Tagliaferri of the Agorà press agency - told me ...

When the journalist - and soon my best man too - Marina Tagliaferri of the "Agorà" Press Office invited us to go and taste the Franciacorta Lantieri de Paratico, to visit the company and have lunch in their Corte Lantieri farmhouse I was .. .

In quarantine I noticed that, apart from a depopular of live Instagram, we are all united by an essential fact: we cook - and consequently we eat - more. In fact I must say that this thing really pleases me: I have been preparing for many years now ...

Writing about the experience we have experienced at Castello di Spessa is not easy for me, especially in an incredible historical period. Within 3 weeks everything changed because of the Coronavirus. We spent such a magical weekend that, honestly, ...

Just like the Castello di Spessa, the feast of St. Valentine was born in the Late Middle Ages. In those years, a certain English writer named Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his masterpiece entitled "The Canterbury Tales". These are 24 stories that have the ...

There are a few days left to Valentine's Day 2020 and probably, if you have a sweet half (or very sweet, as in my case!) You are thinking of organizing something very romantic. So I want to give you a beautiful idea by sharing what Francesco and I will do in that ...

I fell in love at first sight 3 times in my life: the first on July 16, 2001, the second on March 28, 2009 and the third on December 6, 2019. In the middle I lived many different things, which in common all had to be what further away there is from Love. And I have it ...

I have just returned from the Merano Wine Fest and I finally stop for a moment to talk to you about the Massimago winery, its wines, its Amarone della Valpolicella, but above all about the experience I lived around Verona. I decided to give a different cut ...

Every day Instagram shows me photos of girls of a thousand and one thousand kilos that within a year have put together a physicist worthy of a super model thanks to the ketogenic diet. Perfect, I decided to do it too. In practice, carbohydrates can only be photographed ...

The last stop on the Pellegrini press tour was in Corolo, in Barolo. When you think of a "family" winery you think of a reality exactly like this! But his oenological history started from previous generations, when in the 1952 Celeste ...

I admit, I miss a tour of all Barbaresco producers, even though I know those produced by some small companies that are still able to excite me. For this reason, when Babol Communication invited me to the Piedmontese press tour organized by ...

Today I left for two days in Piedmont for a tour organized by Pellegrini 1904 SpA in collaboration with Babol Communication. First of all I want to thank Pietro Pellegrini not only for the invitation, but for his pleasant company intertwined with a ...

This article opens with a delicious cover photo where, against the backdrop of the Carpineto Estate in the magical countryside of Montalcino, there are these two young and beautiful instagrammers who, being deeply in the midst of the balls while trying to photograph ...

As I anticipated in my article "Valentine's Day 2019: 3 gift ideas (romantic) for sommeliers and winelovers", the 14 February we were in Tuscany guests of the Carpineto wine cellar. I already knew this company because they sent me the samples ...

On a quiet mid-December afternoon I receive an invitation from the Intercontinental Bordeaux Le Grand Hôtel ... and that's how my mind instantly returns to France and to my wonderful stay at this wonderful Hotel opposite the Bordeaux Opera ... .

This article will be a little different from the others because it is dedicated to a beautiful day in the Setúbal peninsula with my best friend Fabrizio. This article is about a winery I am fond of, Bacalhoa, and its fascinating Portuguese wines. Speak out...

Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived in a small town in Romagna on the border with Emilia and had a grandmother with whom she prepared fresh pasta at home every day and a grandfather with whom she drank sweet albana between a hammering and another (it was a ...

Anyone who knows me knows that I rarely fall in love up to this point. I went to Gabriele Scaglione in May with Federico, during his touch and flight in Italy. Akiyoshi was missing, but I hope to meet him next time ... maybe we will go ...

Last Wednesday I was at Daniel Pennacchio in Cascina Lorenzo to give a small lesson with tasting on the results of the refinement in wood of red wines (and not only). Although it is not Daniel's that I want to talk about, I must say that Marzemino (Foppello) 2013 ...

Last Wednesday, after photographing thirty beautiful orchids in Michele Cesi's greenhouse to update his I Love Orchid online shop (if you love orchids you can't help but visit it by clicking HERE), I found the strength to get to Costa. ..

Since we have reached the new edition of the Millésima Blog Awards, I want to offer you a series of articles on the wonderful experience that we winners experienced thanks to this important International Competition. My goal is to make you ...

The 1930 Milan is a speakeasy, or a secret bar inspired by American prohibitionism in which a lucky few elect drink the best cocktails in the city.

On Tuesday 4 April 2017, on the occasion of the Primeur in Bordeaux, I was a guest of Château Phélan Ségur for an extraordinary private vertical tasting reserved for us winners of the Millesima Blog Awards. I haven't told you about this beautiful yet ...

Last Wednesday I went to the Gin Rosa wine shop in Piazza San Babila in Milan for a delicious business aperitif. In reality, our stay at Gin Rosa, thanks to the service and the company, was so pleasant that the aperitif turned into a lunch ...

On Tuesday evening Gabriele Scalici, a dear sommelier friend and fellow wine blogger of Parole DiVino, had organized a tasting dedicated to southern wines together with the staff of Rosee Wine Bar. Cute format: each participant brought a bottle from southern Italy from ...

Normally I don't write news articles, not even about wine. In this case, however, I feel like making an exception because this hallucinating news I read this morning on the Slow Food website is about the world I left, construction, and the world in which ...

Last Thursday I visited Davide Lazzari in his cellar in Capriano del Colle, an area I already knew for Alessia Berlusconi's wines (she too chose Montenetto to "give vent" to her creativity and passion for wine) and for the...

This morning I woke up early to complete, and perhaps somewhat rewrite, the article on the afternoon by the Marquis Umberto Fracassi. Being an experience lived a few months ago with Francesco, I couldn't just now that we left to complete it because ...

For this Easter 2016 I thought of trying the Zù Restaurant in Riva di Solto ... thanks to the beautiful location overlooking the lake that I love, and my parents and aunt who came to visit me. I'll be honest, I've never had such a hard time writing an opinion in my life ....

Matteo Morra is the very young chef Patron of the restaurant of the same name housed at the excellent Sylla Sebaste farm in Barolo, and I can never thank Mr Art & Wine Fabio Carisio enough for making me regain a lost passion for ...

Today I am writing to share with you the beautiful Christmas I spent with my family in Pisogne, on Lake Iseo, at the Tentazioni restaurant of Giacomo and Sandro Pittelli, two young twins of Calabrian origin who I am sure will make their way. Giacomo is exceptional in ...

Today I am writing to tell you a wonderful experience that I lived a few days ago with Francesco ... if you are in Milan with a boyfriend or friends it is the perfect place for a quality aperitif ... we had a really good time and we can't wait to replicate! But let's start with ...

Today on Intravino I happened to read an article entitled "Why Slow Food on the wine of Al Bano at the Coop for 1,91 euros is wrong (convincingly explained)" which did not convince me at all. I tend to like Intravino a lot, but sometimes I ...

Today I will do something different than usual ... I am writing to you not to help you do something, but to share with you the emotion that is possessing me up to the bowels in these two days in the vineyards of Friuli. With a little presumption, to you who follow me and read ...

Here, I know that this title undoubtedly leaves you perplexed ... but it is emblematic of the wonderful evening I spent with my adorable glass mates. I anticipate that from today the "Povero Andrea" will be called "Povero e Sfasato Andrea" ... but why you ...

An ancient Latin proverb says: "Venerem sine Libero et Cerere frigere". It can be translated more or less like this: "Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus cools down", where the three divinities respectively indicate wine, food and love. Of course, that's not the sentence anymore ...